“Armageddon is not a foreign policy.”
Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
2000s
Third presidential debate http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/presidential-debate-full-transcript/story?id=17538888, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida, , quoted in * 2012-10-22 <br class="br">The Winning Combination <br class="br">Editorial <br class="br">New York Sun <br class="br">http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-winning-combination/88047/ <br class="br">2012-10-25 <br class="br">2012
“Armageddon is not a foreign policy.”
Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
2000s
“I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Campaign stop, Redwood, California, September 27, 2000 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/nov/04/uselections2000.usa5 <br class="br">2000s, 2000
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/jul/28/state-of-the-nation#column_1462 in the House of Commons (28 July 1843) <br class="br">1840s
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 1954); published in “The Two Planes of International Reality” in Realities of American Foreign Policy (1954), p. 4
“A state’s foreign policy should not just be smart, it should also be just.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author
Source: Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics (2009), p.139
“A foreign minister who knew little of foreign affairs and nothing of foreign policy.”
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) German general
Robert H. Jackson
“In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.”
James Reston (1909–1995) Journalist, newspaper editor
International Herald Tribune (18 November 1991)
Paul Schmidt (1899–1970) German translator, Nazi
To Leon Goldensohn (13 March 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“… foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.”
Fareed Zakaria book The Post-American World
Source: The Post-American World